Comments on: Learn to Play the Guitar in Two Weeks, Day 8: Strumming My Gay Guitar http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/12/learn-to-play-the-guitar-in-two-weeks-day-8/ Eyolf Østrem on Dylan, Computers, and then some Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:07:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Liam http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/12/learn-to-play-the-guitar-in-two-weeks-day-8/comment-page-1/#comment-51001 Liam Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:53:46 +0000 http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/?p=287#comment-51001 When I try to pick out just the bass notes, especially just one bass note, on the downwards strum, I find I can't keep the whole pendulem movement going - making an immediate upstroke impossible. My hand just sort pops after striking the bass outwards. Is this usual or a problem? When I try to pick out just the bass notes, especially just one bass note, on the downwards strum, I find I can’t keep the whole pendulem movement going – making an immediate upstroke impossible. My hand just sort pops after striking the bass outwards. Is this usual or a problem?

]]> By: Jack http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/12/learn-to-play-the-guitar-in-two-weeks-day-8/comment-page-1/#comment-50976 Jack Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:14:42 +0000 http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/?p=287#comment-50976 Even with the beats represented as dots in the tab, I can't figure out how to play those patterns without knowing where are the downstrokes and upstrokes. Wouldn't make it easier to indicate the direction of the strum with a D for down, and U for up and a small d and u for bass strings and a B for one bass string and put them above the beats so then we could play them... Like this: D D UD UDUDU And you could add that to Dylan tabs because even when I know the chords it doesn't sound like right at all without a proper pattern to play... I know it would waste a lot of time but that would help a lot people like me and millions of other poor guys who don't know how to strum... Even with the beats represented as dots in the tab, I can’t figure out how to play those patterns without knowing where are the downstrokes and upstrokes. Wouldn’t make it easier to indicate the direction of the strum with a D for down, and U for up and a small d and u for bass strings and a B for one bass string and put them above the beats so then we could play them… Like this:

D D UD UDUDU

And you could add that to Dylan tabs because even when I know the chords it doesn’t sound like right at all without a proper pattern to play… I know it would waste a lot of time but that would help a lot people like me and millions of other poor guys who don’t know how to strum…

]]> By: Fred http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/12/learn-to-play-the-guitar-in-two-weeks-day-8/comment-page-1/#comment-50636 Fred Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:22:17 +0000 http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/?p=287#comment-50636 I'm glad to hear that the Asus2 chord is what I expected it to be after all. http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/Asus2.asp is where I got my information. After taking a closer look, the site does mention (in addition to the x02100 chord) the x02200 chord as Asus2... I’m glad to hear that the Asus2 chord is what I expected it to be after all. http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/Asus2.asp is where I got my information. After taking a closer look, the site does mention (in addition to the x02100 chord) the x02200 chord as Asus2…

]]> By: Eyolf Østrem http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/12/learn-to-play-the-guitar-in-two-weeks-day-8/comment-page-1/#comment-50635 Eyolf Østrem Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:45:47 +0000 http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/?p=287#comment-50635 If that's what the internet tells you, the internet is wrong (and if that's something you have found in one of these lessons, it's a typo, so please let me know where). There is a more thorough discussion of chords, including Asus2, in <a href="http://http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/01/guitar-in-two-weeks-day-12-chords-chords-chords/" rel="nofollow">Lesson 12</a>, so in all haste here: Asus2 would be played x02200: the third in the chord (which in the case of A major is on the second string) is shifted one tone down, to the open string. The g# has no business in that chord. If that’s what the internet tells you, the internet is wrong (and if that’s something you have found in one of these lessons, it’s a typo, so please let me know where).
There is a more thorough discussion of chords, including Asus2, in Lesson 12, so in all haste here: Asus2 would be played x02200: the third in the chord (which in the case of A major is on the second string) is shifted one tone down, to the open string. The g# has no business in that chord.

]]> By: Fred http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/12/learn-to-play-the-guitar-in-two-weeks-day-8/comment-page-1/#comment-50634 Fred Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:28:48 +0000 http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/?p=287#comment-50634 Hi, according to the internet an Asus2 chord is a chord with an open 5th (base A), 2nd (sus2) and 1st (the fifth) string and 4th string pushed down on the 2nd fret (the fifth). This makes perfect sense to me. What I don't understand is that the 3th string is supposed to be pushed down on the 1st fret. What the hell is a g# doing there? Hi,

according to the internet an Asus2 chord is a chord with an open 5th (base A), 2nd (sus2) and 1st (the fifth) string and 4th string pushed down on the 2nd fret (the fifth). This makes perfect sense to me. What I don’t understand is that the 3th string is supposed to be pushed down on the 1st fret. What the hell is a g# doing there?

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